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Kristóf Szabó F.A.C.E. Visual Performing Arts & Guests

“LOST PARADISE”

 

 August 2nd, 2025 – 8:00 p.m.
LOST PARADISE 1 + 2 EVA (BE)WERTWN + ADAM
St. Gertrud Kirche Köln

August 3rd, 2025 – 8:00 p.m.:
LOST PARADISE 1+2 – EVA (BE)WERTEN + ADAM
St. Gertrud Kirche Köln

LOST PARADISE is a haunting dance performance directed by Kristóf Szabó and produced by club68köln – the association for disabled and non-disabled people.

Through a combination of dance, theater, radio play, photography, and video art, a multi-layered production unfolds, transforming the space into a vibrant playground of human experience. An impressive stage design and moving video projections lend the performance visual depth and transform the venue into a resonance chamber for memory, resistance, and empathy.

At the center is one of the most fundamental questions of our time:

When is a person a person—and what happens when categories determine value and dignity?

Article 1 of the German Basic Law states: “Human dignity shall be inviolable.”

But what remains of this promise when it cracks in everyday life?

LOST PARADISE is a poetic, haunting appeal against exclusion and pressure to conform. The performance explores the fault lines of our society—between ideal and reality, between inclusion and economic utility. It creates a space for encounter and transformation—an artistic plea for a humanity beyond norms and performance metrics.

The project is complemented by an interactive digital chat platform, Paradise Regained, where visitors can share their experiences of exclusion, judgment, and inclusion—live on site.

Note Performances will be broadcast live on YouTube by the organizer. By purchasing a ticket, you agree to be filmed live and made public on YouTube.

 

 

TICKETS:

via rausgegangen.de and at the box office

 

A physical theater research that examines bodies and voices for their extremes, their capacity for contact, for joy, for excess, for listening and trust. An exploration of how impulses flow together in the body and voice and how what concerns us makes its way through them. A poetic-physical treatise on what happens in the world, who we are in it and what we want. Two animals that are human.

Admission: free

Info and reservation: 0163 – 9719837 or post@wolkenstein-theater.de

 

Most of the time, Willi the raccoon and Laila the owl are very comfortable in their forest home, and they have been good friends for a long time.
And yet there’s always something to decide all day long: who gets to play the drum, that’s my apple, where are the wellies again, stop strumming, is there lunch now, you don’t know what you want anyway, but you already had the little guitar yesterday and you always know everything better…
Laila and Willi find joy in their own voices and self-determination between not-right-at-all and right-at-all. And, of course, they find out how to make decisions together.

Summarized in adult language:
Owl and Raccoon play around the children’s right to participation and use lots of music and humor to educate daycare children about democracy.

Supported by NRW Landesbüro FDK, NRW Ministry of Culture, Cologne Cultural Office and the Victor Rolff Foundation.

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